Breadcrumbs display a list of links indicating the position of the current page in the whole site hierarchy. For example, breadcrumbs like Home / Sample Post / Edit
means the user is viewing an edit page for the "Sample Post." He can click on "Sample Post" to view that page or click on "Home" to return to the homepage.
Home / Sample Post / Edit
This package for the Laravel framework will make it easy to build breadcrumbs in your application.
Run this at the command line:
$ composer require tabuna/breadcrumbs
This will update composer.json
and install the package into the vendor/
directory.
Now you can define breadcrumbs directly in the route files:
use Tabuna\Breadcrumbs\Trail;
// Home
Route::get('/', fn () => view('home'))
->name('home')
->breadcrumbs(fn (Trail $trail) =>
$trail->push('Home', route('home'))
);
// Home > About
Route::get('/about', fn () => view('home'))
->name('about')
->breadcrumbs(fn (Trail $trail) =>
$trail->parent('home')->push('About', route('about'))
);
You can also get arguments from the request:
Route::get('/category/{category}', function (Category $category){
//In this example, the category object is your Eloquent model.
//code...
})
->name('category')
->breadcrumbs(fn (Trail $trail, Category $category) =>
$trail->push($category->title, route('category', $category->id))
);
The package tries to reduce the number of lines needed. For this, you can skip passing the results of the route()
methods.
The following two declarations will be equivalent:
Route::get('/', fn () => view('home'))
->name('home')
->breadcrumbs(fn (Trail $trail) =>
$trail->push('Home', route('home'))
);
Route::get('/', fn () => view('home'))
->name('home')
->breadcrumbs(fn (Trail $trail) =>
$trail->push('Home', 'home')
);
You can do this simply by adding the desired file to the service provider
namespace App\Providers;
use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;
class BreadcrumbsServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
/**
* Bootstrap the application events.
*
* @return void
*/
public function boot()
{
require base_path('routes/breadcrumbs.php');
}
}
Then it will be your special file in the route directory:
// routes/breadcrumbs.php
// Photos
Breadcrumbs::for('photo.index', fn (Trail $trail) =>
$trail->parent('home')->push('Photos', route('photo.index'))
);
When using resources, a whole group of routes is declared for which you must specify values manually
// routes/web.php
Route::resource('photos', 'PhotoController');
Itβs better to specify this in service providers, since route files can be cached
namespace App\Providers;
use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;
use Tabuna\Breadcrumbs\Breadcrumbs;
use Tabuna\Breadcrumbs\Trail;
class BreadcrumbsServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
/**
* Bootstrap any application services.
*
* @return void
*/
public function boot()
{
Breadcrumbs::for('photos.index', fn (Trail $trail) =>
$trail->push('Photos', route('home'))
);
Breadcrumbs::for('photos.create', fn (Trail $trail) =>
$trail
->parent('photos.index', route('photos.index'))
->push('Add new photo', route('home'))
);
}
}
You can use the output component:
<ul>
<x-tabuna-breadcrumbs/>
</ul>
To define classes of list items, you can specify:
<x-tabuna-breadcrumbs
class="item"
active="active"
/>
You can also pass parameters:
<x-tabuna-breadcrumbs
parameters="['value 1', 'value 2', 'value 3']"
/>
And call named routes explicitly:
<x-tabuna-breadcrumbs
route="static"
/>
In order to display breadcrumbs on the desired page, simply call:
@if(Breadcrumbs::has())
@foreach (Breadcrumbs::current() as $crumbs)
@if ($crumbs->url() && !$loop->last)
<li class="breadcrumb-item">
<a href="{{ $crumbs->url() }}">
{{ $crumbs->title() }}
</a>
</li>
@else
<li class="breadcrumb-item active">
{{ $crumbs->title() }}
</li>
@endif
@endforeach
@endif
And results in this output:
Home / About
For several years, I successfully used the Dave James Miller package to solve my problems, but he stopped developing and supporting it. After a long search for alternatives, I liked the Dwight Watson package, but the isolation of breadcrumbs from the announcement of the routes did not give me rest. That's why I created this package. It uses the code of both previous packages.
The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.